Supremacist Lace Flag 1

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Supremacist Lace Flag 1

I love to design lace.  Not frilly dressmaking trims nor your grandmother’s doilies, although they are lovely, too.
I simply love what happens when light passes through the artwork, casting shadows on the wall, throwing shade!

This series began as an exploration of geometry in space.  Geometry is predictable and soothing. It seems secure.  I wanted to see what happened if it was hung overhead, made from gossamer materials.

What happened was  the shadows seemed to reveal the lies.  The forms were neither predictable nor secure. I imagined the flags hung one behind the next, like a parade. Instantly I was reminded of Russian supremacist art and of would be dictators telling beautiful lies.

The lies of supremacy always cast dark shadows.

Wall or suspended art: thread.

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]